Other forms: drawings
A drawing is a picture made with lines. Pencil, pen or charcoal on paper, with no paint involved.
Lines are what define it, which is what separates a drawing from a painting. The word names the activity as well as the object, so you can be good at drawing and also hang a drawing on a wall. Technical drawing is the precise kind done for engineering. There is a second and unrelated sense from lotteries and raffles, since the drawing is the moment the winning ticket is pulled out.
1noundrawingA picture made with lines rather than paint.~58%
“She pinned the drawing above her desk.”
2nounactThe act or skill of making such pictures.~42%
“He was always better at drawing than at painting.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 16 sentences found in the wild and placed 12 of them on a sense (4 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: sketch
Proto-Germanic
*dragandz — drawing
Old English
dragende
Middle English
drauinge
English, today
drawing
From Middle English drauinge, drawinge, alteration of earlier drawende, drawand, from Old English dragende, from Proto-Germanic dragandz (“drawing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic draganą (“to draw; pull”), equivalent to draw + ing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA